More than a year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries began a large scale project in order to give relief efforts to Port Au Prince.

"We determined it was probably about one hour of each camper's week that they devoted to do these health kits," said Dave Coker, of the Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries.

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The ministry took the openness and freedom of summer camp, added a message of service and transformed it into help for a devastated nation.

The campers and staff made 32,000 health kits desperately needed in Haiti.

"It felt like we were giving them more that they could grasp on to," said Anthony Rippe, a volunteer.

Ryan Fetters said, "It made me feel helpful to help another country. They don't have a lot of stuff; we have all of it and we take it for granted, tossing it around like it's nothing."

The health kits are a part of a multimillion dollar effort by Lutheran World Relief. It contained items like towels, toothpaste and soap.

Every kit was put together at the Carol Joy Holling Camp near Ashland and several other Nebraska camps last summer. The kits were hand-delivered by Nebraska's Lutheran Outdoor Ministry leaders in Haiti the end of February.

"Parents just went through a class on preventing cholera and staying healthy. Then they were given health kits," Coker said.

The ministry leaders group also went to see other Haitian wreckage such as warehouses serving as a lifeline for many families, students learning in makeshift classrooms and restrooms with walls made out of UNICEF tarps.

The team came back to relay the experience back to the hundreds of camp kids to make them realize a little help could make a big difference for many others.